The Headless Torso
Many people say that in Charleston, SC room 8 of the Battery Carriage House Inn. that a man has no limbs and no head. Just his torso! Who is this man? Many people that have visited that have seen him still wonder about this. The story goes is that he was a man that was killed by General William Tecumseh Sherman and his army in 1895. When many Charlestonians fled to Colombia they felt the wrath of Sherman and his army. Instead of destroying Charleston he destroyed Columbia. No one knows why he didn’t destroy Charleston his target to destroy. After they destroyed Columbia a confederate solider was killed in a explosives accident. He lost all of his limbs and his head. This is the man that haunts room 8 of the Battery Carriage House Inn. On August 8, 1992 he visited a couple that were staying in room 8 of the Battery Carriage House Inn. They were asleep when the husband woke up and found himself staring at a torso. The torso was just floating in between the foot of the bed and the wall. The husband crawled to the foot of the bed and touched the burlaps material overcoat. then the figure moved away and moaned deeply it was in pain. His wife asked him at an interview if he thought if it was a burglar or a robber that wanted their things. He said no because that there was just a torso. No head and no limbs. He said at the interview that he wasn’t a believer of ghost or the supernatural until that night.
By: Tysen Stephenson
Macy, Edward B., and Julian T. Buxton. The Ghost of Charleston . 1st ed. Charleston, SC: Beaufort Books, 2001. Print.
Many people say that in Charleston, SC room 8 of the Battery Carriage House Inn. that a man has no limbs and no head. Just his torso! Who is this man? Many people that have visited that have seen him still wonder about this. The story goes is that he was a man that was killed by General William Tecumseh Sherman and his army in 1895. When many Charlestonians fled to Colombia they felt the wrath of Sherman and his army. Instead of destroying Charleston he destroyed Columbia. No one knows why he didn’t destroy Charleston his target to destroy. After they destroyed Columbia a confederate solider was killed in a explosives accident. He lost all of his limbs and his head. This is the man that haunts room 8 of the Battery Carriage House Inn. On August 8, 1992 he visited a couple that were staying in room 8 of the Battery Carriage House Inn. They were asleep when the husband woke up and found himself staring at a torso. The torso was just floating in between the foot of the bed and the wall. The husband crawled to the foot of the bed and touched the burlaps material overcoat. then the figure moved away and moaned deeply it was in pain. His wife asked him at an interview if he thought if it was a burglar or a robber that wanted their things. He said no because that there was just a torso. No head and no limbs. He said at the interview that he wasn’t a believer of ghost or the supernatural until that night.
By: Tysen Stephenson
Macy, Edward B., and Julian T. Buxton. The Ghost of Charleston . 1st ed. Charleston, SC: Beaufort Books, 2001. Print.